Antecedents and consequences of coping in the anticipatory stage of an exam: A longitudinal study emphasizing the role of affect

Rovira, Tatiana; Castro, Jordi Fernández; Edo, Sílvia

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“…The religion and substance use subscales were removed from the questionnaire because they are considered to be irrelevant in an academic setting (Rovira et al, 2005). Participants were asked to rate on a 4-point scale (from 1 "Not at all" to 4 "Usually") to what extent they generally use each of the strategies described in order to manage the exam situation.…”

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“…Existing studies have emphasized that the coping strategies used to face the exams vary according to the students' anxiety style (Raffety, Smith, & Ptacek, 1997), extraversion and neuroticism (Gallagher, 1996), their level of self-esteem, optimism and psychological control (Aspinwall & Taylor, 1992), and the degree and nature of affect related to the academic stressors (Rovira et al, 2005). However, the mechanisms that lead students to use particular strategies require a more detailed enquiry.…”

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“…More particularly, those categories can be categorized as problemfocused, which involves activities centered on changing the stressful situationfor example planning and studying for the exam situation-or emotion-focused, which involves activities centered on modifying one's reaction resulting on the stressful situation-such as seeking social support for emotional reasons and engaging in activities not related to the exam situation (Carver & Scheier, 1994;Folkman & Lazarus, 1985;Rovira, Fernandez-Castro, & Edo, 2005).…”

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Motivational Predictors of Coping With Academic Examination

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Motivational Predictors of Coping With Academic Examination

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The Journal of Social Psychology

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“…One example is that mastery and interpersonal trust are related to primary and secondary appraisals and account for significant variance in psychological outcomes (Folkman, Lazarus, Gruen, & DeLongis, 1986). A second is that perceived personal competence and optimism are associated with primary and secondary appraisals, and both the dispositional variables and appraisals predicted the use of coping strategies and emotional outcome (Rovira, Fernandez-Castro, & Edo, 2005).…”

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Specific Religious Beliefs in a Cognitive Appraisal Model of Stress and Coping

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McIntosh

2010

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

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Although religiousness is tied to coping, little work examines the role of specific religious beliefs in the coping process. Applying the transactional model of coping, positivity of God image and vertical religious focus were assessed in a national sample of 103 parents of children with disabilities. Controlling for general religiousness, these specific beliefs were correlated with parents' appraisals. Positive God image was associated positively with appraisals that the disability is a challenge, a benefit, and God is in control; it was associated negatively with loss appraisal. Vertical religious focus was associated positively with the appraisal that God is in control. Consistent with the model, appraisals mediated the relation between specific beliefs and coping strategies. Loss appraisal mediated the relation of vertical focus and God image with engagement coping and the appraisal that God is in control further explained the relation between vertical focus and engagement coping.Religion powerfully influences how individuals cope with stress (Pargament, 1997). It explains unique variance in coping and predicts outcomes beyond secular coping (Pargament, 2002). Despite this wealth of research demonstrating that religion is linked with coping, much less is known about how religion enters and forms the coping process. This study addresses this question using a cognitive appraisal approach, providing a broader evaluation of religion's role in coping. We test how specific religious beliefs are related to appraisals of stressors, how these appraisals relate to coping, and how these beliefs fit into the whole coping process. Moreover, we explore the role that specific religious beliefs play beyond that of general religiousness. THE TRANSACTIONAL MODEL OF STRESS AND COPINGCognitive approaches to stress and coping assert that stressors are stressful only if an individual perceives them as such (Bandura, 1977;Roesch, Weiner, & Vaughn, 2002). Among the best-supported cognitive approaches is Lazarus and Folkman's (1984) transactional model. It features cognitive appraisals of a stressor as mediators of the relations between individual difference variables and coping strategies used; these strategies then influence various outcomes.

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“…planning), or emotion‐focused, involving activities centred on modifying one's reactions to stressful situations (e.g. positive reinterpretation; Carver & Scheier, 1994; Folkman & Lazarus, 1985; Rovira, Fernadez‐Castro, & Edo, 2005). While problem‐focused coping responses have been proposed to alleviate the negative impact of stress and yield more positive outcomes, certain emotion‐focused coping responses have been viewed as maladaptive because they may lead one to disengage from the task, (e.g.…”

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